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TIL The Last Airbender received 5 awards: Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, Worst Supporting Actor, and a special award, “Worst Eye-Gouging Mis-Use of 3D.”

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0r5L TIL in 2006, police at GWU used Facebook to learn about college parties and bust them. To fight back, students set up a beer blast event on Facebook. When the cops showed up, there was no alcohol, but cookies with “Beer” written on them and games of “Cake-pong”.
69vAw TILin the movie Lord of War , they purchased 3000 actual guns for the production because it was less expensive than buying props and they could resell the guns later. Additionally, they leased 50 tanks that were only available for a brief period because the source had to sell them to Libya later.
GYl95 TIL Alheira de Mirandela, a kosher bread sausage was invented in Portugal to help hide Jews from the Spanish inquisition. Jews had fled to Portugal from Spain & pretended to be Catholic, Catholic homes hung preserved meat sausages from the rafters, & Jews were conspicuous for their missing sausages
8exJG TIL The 20 chapters and 497 verses of Confucius' Analects were unknown until 300 years after his death. Chapters are composed of sayings that seem random and it is difficult to tell if the text reliably report what Confucius actually said and did